Cookie monsters can seek their late-night munchies fix at Midnight Cookies and Cream in Hollywood, which sells fresh-baked treatsafter dark.

The nocturnally minded cookie company, open daily from noon until midnight, comes from 26-year-old semipro bodybuilder Jonathan Mordechai. The first-time business owner and baker opened Midnight Cookies in April in a strip mall next to T.Y. Park.

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Inspired by late-night cookie shops in Miami and Miami Beach, Mordechai opened Midnight Cookies to give Hollywood residents such as himself sweet satisfaction.

“I couldn’t see myself driving all the way down there every time I wanted cookies,” says Mordechai, who says he sells about 1,000 cookies per week thanks to the bakery’s word of mouth.

On a recent Tuesday night, the vibe inside Midnight Cookies and Cream crackled with sugar-amped teenagers and 20-somethings ogling the shop’s 13 fancy cookies, which include Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Crème Brulee and Birthday Cake. A mixing bowl stuffed with 50 pounds of cookie dough sat on a prep table behind Mordechai — “I go through eight of these a week,” he says — as he blended milkshakes and scooped ice cream into a cookie sandwich.

He plans to hire a delivery driver once Midnight Cookies is more profitable, but for now, Broward and Palm Beach residents must rely on delivery services such as UberEats, Delivery Dudes, GrubHub and Postmates, Mordechai says. UberEats, Delivery Dudes and GrubHub won’t deliver north of Dania Beach or south of Hallandale Beach, according to their websites, but Postmates appears to deliver as far north as West Palm Beach (with higher delivery fees).

Midnight Cookies also offers Sweet Shot cookies, or chocolate-chip cookies stuffed with a choice of Nutella, peanut butter and vanilla or chocolate frosting. For those not cookie-inclined, the bakery offers ice-cream doughnut sandwiches and vanilla milkshakes topped with white chocolate, vanilla crumbs, whipped cream and a wafer cookie.

Midnight Cookies is hardly South Florida’s first late-night cookie purveyor. Within the past three years, Insomnia Cookies and Phenomenom Late-Night Cookies have opened in Miami Beach, while Night Owl Cookie Company has a location in Miami’s Westchester neighborhood.